23 JULY 1932, page 3

Speeding Up In The Past Week Mr. Kaye Don Has

driven a motor- boat faster than one has . ever been driven before, the London and North Eastern Railway has knocked some- thing over a quarter of an hour off the run from......

A Great Ambassador As A Devoted Student Of English Life

and letters and as an interpreter between France and the English-speaking peoples, M. Jusserand, who died on Monday, will be widely and deeply regretted. After long service in......

A Soldier Statesman If To One Generation Field-marshal...

is Plumer of Messines to another he Will always be Plumer of Mafeking. There was nothing in the Great War like the sieges 'of Ladysmith and Mafeking, and no parallel to the......

A Railway Sales Manager The London Midland And Scottish...

has taken a long step forward in modernization by appointing a chief commercial manager who is to deal with the public in respect of both passenger and goods traffic. This......

Reflation In America If The Granting Of Vast Loans To

private enterprise can foster employment, the United States Congress, which ended its session last Saturday, has done much to end the trade depression that has thrown America,......

Higher Buildings The London County Council Has Acted...

deciding on Monday to raise the maximum height of trade buildings from eighty to 100 feet. Large business firms and architects have long pleaded for liberty to build higher,......

Legal Reforms The Lord Chancellor Has Done Something To...

legal procedure by his new rules and he promised, in his Mansion House speech last week, to go further in reform- ing the practice of the law. The right of appeal, too often......

Bank Rate 2 Per Cent., Changed From 21 Per Cent.

on June 30th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101*; on Wednesday week, 101 1 1 ; a year ago, 1031. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 107 1; on Wednesday......